Snezhka Oliferenko

Schematic of MAPK signalling in fission yeast, budding yeast and Metazoa. No MAPK scaffold was known for ERK-like MAPK in fission yeast, as opposed to budding yeast Ste5 and metazoan KSR1/2.

Mammalian cells have KSR, budding yeast has Ste5… and fission yeast has Sms1 as the MAPK scaffold for sexual reproduction!

Very excited to share my postdoc work where we discover that the hemi-arrestin Sms1 binds all components of the MAPK cascade, including ERK-like Spk1

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Please visit our newly refreshed and updated website mcclellandlab.com We seem to be hard to find on Google for some reason, any tips from website savvy people?? 🙏

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Screenshot of the SOG home page.

We are pleased to share the Schizosaccharomyces orthogroup web resource (fsnibs10.github.io/SOG/) with the pombe community.

Congrats on your first paper 🤗

Yay congrats! To you and CRG ;)

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Yay YAY congrats to everyone - and am super happy for my neighbour (and friend!) Jody Rosenblatt! Jody doesn’t have Bluesky, let me bug her about that

I used it once and remember feeling quite smug about it

Localization of WDS proteins and fimbrin in three fungal species.

How do cells switch on the actin assembly at endocytic sites? How can this on-switch evolve? Check out our new preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Unique trajectory of gene family evolution from genomic analysis of nearly all known species in an ancient yeast lineage | Molecular Systems Biology imageimageLarge-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast evolution. Faster-evolving lineages lose more genes and speciate ...

Just out - a collaborative effort examining gene family evolution across yeast species. We found that fast-evolving yeasts lose more genes - especially ones for splicing, metabolism, and cell division. This is consistent with their narrow metabolic niche breadth.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Now published! Big congrats to first author @gginell.bsky.social

We are actively working improving/updating various aspects of FINCHES; don't hesitate to reach out if you run into issues, have questions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Non-profit journals are on the critical list.

The cause: academics obsession with the Nature brand, coupled with the APC $ model.

Some will argue it doesn’t matter (“all as bad as each other”). But the fact is undeniable and it’s good guys who put money back into science like COB who are losing..

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Good efforts.
Here, I broke my tibia jumping in triumph after crossing the finishing line at a dog agility competition.